Kinkai wakashū 665

なよ竹のななのももそぢおいぬれどやそのちふしは色もかはらず

nayotake no
nana no momosoji
oinuredo
yaso no chifushi wa
iro mo kawarazu

The young bamboo
Seven hundred years of
Age has reached, yet
O’er eighty thousand joints
Will its hues remain unchanged!

665

Waka Poetry